Overview

Foxboro DCS FoxAlert provides a means to view batch-related alarms, enter comments, and unsuspend equipment phases. Through the interaction of equipment system tags, Batch Manager and Foxboro DCS Control Processor, Event Manager is able to capture batch-related alarms.

Batch alarms, in the AVEVA Batch Management with Foxboro DCS Components Suite, are captured, associated with a batch and stored in the Batch Historian. The user can view alarms for a specific batch using the FoxAlert alarm and can attach a comment to any batch specific alarm event in FoxAlert. A set of three alarm report queries is provided to retrieve batch analog alarms and comments, Boolean alarms and comments, and sequence blocks and comments from batch history and include them in batch reports.

The following diagram shows the major elements of the Batch Alarm subsystem.